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Shavuot: The Holiday With 5 Names!

By Rabbi Ari Enkin, Rabbinic Director, United with Israel This coming Saturday night begins the holiday of Shavuot! It’s the day we received the Torah...

10 Facts About Ruth Everyone Should Know

By Menachem Posner(Chabad.org) 1. Ruth Is the Quintessential Convert to Judaism Many female converts to Judaism choose the name Ruth, and for good reason! Ruth, whose story is...

“Great Parade” –  Lag BaOmer Street Fair and Carnival Returns to Bklyn After Six Years

“Great Parade” -  Lag BaOmer Street Fair and Carnival Returns to Bklyn After Six Years Listen to this article at: TJVNews.com The Parade, Coming Amid NYC...

500,000 Lag BaOmer Celebrants to Safely Return to Meron

By Bruria Efune(Chabad.org) While preparations for Lag BaOmer are underway at Chabad Houses around the world this week, emissaries in one city are especially hard at work: Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok and Chana Ruth Halperin of Chabad-Lubavitch of Meron, a...

The Last Days of Passover – Parting of the Red Sea

The Last Days of Passover - Parting of the Red Sea By: Menachem Posner   What Was the Parting of the Red Sea? The miracle of the parting...

Fighting antisemitism in the spirit of Passover

Adam Teitelbaum (JNS) Last week, Jewish people around the world gathered to celebrate Passover, a holiday that commemorates the flight of enslaved Hebrews from oppression in...

Seder All Year Round

Seder All Year Round By: Chaya Sora Jungreis-Gertzulin My mother, the Rebbetzin a”h was the featured speaker at a hotel for Pesach, and our family was...

Preserving Passover tradition while lightening the load

( JNS) Growing up in Morocco, Levana Kirschenbaum felt Passover approaching weeks in advance. It wasn’t a good feeling. “My mother was completely obsessed and...

A Spiritual Guide to the Counting of the Omer

A Spiritual Guide to the Counting of the Omer Forty-Nine Steps to Personal Refinement By:  Simon Jacobson The 49 days from Passover to Shavout have always been...

In divisive times, can we still celebrate Passover together?

Jonathan S. Tobin  (JNS) Even in the best of times, family gatherings can be tricky to navigate. Typical 21st-century families no longer live near one another....

Why Do We Break the Matzah?

By Yehuda Shurpin (Chabad.org) After we make kiddush and eat the vegetable dipped in salt water at the Passover Seder, we crack the middle matzah. We set aside the...

Passover ‘Guide for the Perplexed’ – explainer

By Amb. (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, The Ettinger Report – The Passover Exodus, in general, and the Mosaic legacy, in particular, inspired the US Founding Fathers’...

60,000 Tourists To Visit Israel During Passover

(JNS) – Some 60,000 tourists are expected to arrive in Israel during the Passover and Easter holidays, injecting nearly $100 million into the economy. Passover...

Caroline Glick: The challenges of freedom on the eve of Passover

(JNS) President Joe Biden’s unprecedented attack on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week was just the latest sign that the Biden administration is deeply...

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